The View co-host Ana Navarro went full throttle Monday, taking aim at Caitlyn Jenner after the former Olympian revealed she’s hitting a bureaucratic wall trying to change the gender marker on her passport. Jenner had shared on Tomi Lahren’s podcast that she even reached out to former President Donald Trump for help—but hasn’t heard back.
Navarro’s response? Not exactly sympathetic.
“Caitlyn Jenner? Girl, cry me a river. Let me play my little violin for you,” she scoffed, brushing off Jenner’s predicament as self-inflicted. Navarro then pivoted to Trump’s day-one executive order, which reestablished a binary definition of sex—male and female—across federal agencies.
“Changing the marker on the passports is an executive order that he signed on day one,” Navarro said. “So if you think he didn’t know what he was doing, if you think he wasn’t fulfilling a campaign promise… he absolutely exploited this issue in order to get people to the polls.”
And then came the moral grenade: “I think there’s a special place in hell for people who only care about themselves and don’t care about the effect on others.”
That’s one way to win applause from the studio audience—but it raises a question: is this about policy, or just politics?
Because here’s the part that gets glossed over in the daytime TV outrage cycle. The Trump-era order—titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”—didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a direct response to years of shifting federal standards that many Americans felt were confusing at best and incoherent at worst.
The policy requires federal documents, including passports, to reflect biological sex. The State Department has since stopped issuing “X” gender markers and is no longer allowing changes between “M” and “F” based on gender identity alone.
That’s the reality Jenner—and others—are running into.
But Jenner isn’t exactly joining the anti-Trump chorus.
“I haven’t heard from him. He’s kind of busy right now. My gender marker is not big on the issue, OK?” Jenner said. “I’m not blaming him whatsoever. I love the guy, and I love what he’s doing.”
That’s right—the very person Navarro blasted isn’t even attacking the policy with the same intensity.
Meanwhile, Navarro reached back a decade to quote transgender activist Janetta Johnson, who in 2015 said: “Jenner is a rich, White b—-. She can pay for everything she needs… she now needs to put some of that money back into the transgender community, as she has taken a lot.”
It’s a curious strategy: criticize Jenner for supporting a policy, then bolster the argument with criticism from activists.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin piled on, calling the executive order a “stupid policy” designed to embarrass people, arguing it “does not in any way better the lives of the American people.”
But that depends on who you ask. Supporters argue it restores clarity and consistency to federal records—something they say is essential for everything from national security to women’s sports.
And speaking of that debate, Jenner has backed restrictions on transgender women competing in female sports, aligning—again—with positions more commonly heard on the right.
In the end, Monday’s episode of The View said more about the state of political discourse than it did about passports. Instead of grappling with the complexities of gender policy, viewers got outrage, old quotes, and a heavy dose of personal attacks.
